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May 2013 NPD: Injustice wins again, 3DS dethrones Xbox

Injustice: Gods Among Us took the top position for a second consecutive month on the NPD charts.

Injustice: Gods Among Us took the top position for a second consecutive month on the NPD charts. While impressive, there was also little competition. In fact, only three new releases made the list this month, and two of them aren't even technically new games. Metro: Last Light debuted at a respectable 6th place, while the new 3DS and Wii U ports of Donkey Kong Country Returns and Lego Batman 2 charted. The lack of new releases caused an 84% decrease in unit sales year-over-year, NPD analyst Liam Callahan points out.

Perhaps the most shocking news out of this month's report: Xbox 360 has finally been dethroned as the top-selling hardware in America. The winner this month is Nintendo 3DS thanks to its strengthening library of games. "Nintendo 3DS software unit sales were up sixty percent versus May '12, and when looking at the game ranking based on SKUs, there were three 3DS SKUs in the top 10," Callahan noted.

Xbox 360 was still the best-selling home console, so Redmond doesn't have to cry (yet).